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Quartz cast after Calcite (Jaime Bird Coll.)
- N'Chwaning Mines, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa
- Miniature, 3.5 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm
- Start Time: 05/26/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/31/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A very rare casted specimen from the famous N"Chwaning Mines. The sparkly, sugary, drusy quartz scalenohedrons are actually epimorphs, i. e. casts after the the calcite crystals, which have been dissolved away. Jaime Bird purchased this enticing rarity from Bill Larson in November, 1977, after one of Bill"s numerous buying trips to South Africa and Namibia.